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Not directly political, but I need to rant about how our media presents ideas. So....START RANT:
I can't put my finger on it exactly, but it's this general hazy everyday-man stupidity that passes for some kind of common wisdom that's handed down from the elite gods like it's gold or some shit. Two years ago Times columnist Thomas Friedman did a column about "how america got carried away" with the fervor of vengeance after 9/11 and we "all got a little stupid". It infuriated me, because this douche spent 2001-2006 writing column after column in favor of the Bush Iraq war. He went on Charlie Rose and said that the Arabs can "suck on this". I knew about 49% of America that didn't get "carried away" with that particular stupidity, but Friedman did, and then he writes some smug, revelatory column like, "Wow, I'm an American elite and even I got carried away! Whew, imagine that, someone as smart as me getting caught up in this..well, I'm over it now, and so should you, America..." No, you're a douche. You got carried away, Tom. That infuriating stupidity paid your bills for five years. Fucking douchenozzle.
And in this Sunday's NY Times magazine, their primary financial reporter repeats the same fucking type of thinking. Turns out this douche took out a half-million dollar mortgage on $2,777 of monthly take home pay (he was paying child support on three kids apparently that was wiping him out...). So he say's this in the lede: "I joined millions of otherwise-sane Americans in what we now know was a catastrophic binge on overpriced real estate and reckless mortgages. Nobody duped or hypnotized me. Like so many others — borrowers, lenders and the Wall Street dealmakers behind them — I just thought I could beat the odds."
No douche nozzle. You WERE duped. You were duped into believing that someone with $2,777 monthly take home could afford a half-million dollar mortgage. You hypnotized yourself because you thought you were a fucking special little douche snowflake, and consequences didn't apply to you, and that you could "beat the odds". You had already duped yourself so that when you walked into the mortgage office you had a giant fucking neon sign above your head that said "Special Snowflake Douchenozzle, Please Take Advantage of Me". And they did.
He goes on to say:
"“My situation is a little complicated,” I warned [the mortgage broker]. I told him about my child support and alimony payments and said I was banking on Patty to earn enough money to keep us afloat. Bob cut me off. “I specialize in challenges,” he said confidently."
Dude, are you THAT much of a head in the sand douchenozzle that when a fucking mortgage broker says shit to you like "I specialize in challenges" you are not about to be handed a fucking giant pile of shit? Jeez, I'd love to watch you try to buy a used car.
You are a dupe. Dupe. Dupe. Dupe. Dupe. You got duped.
It was a ponzi scheme and you fell for it. You. Mr. Dickwad Elite Douche.
I like how he writes: "As an economics reporter for The New York Times, I have been the paper’s chief eyes and ears on the Federal Reserve for the past six years. I watched Alan Greenspan and his successor, Ben S. Bernanke, at close range. I wrote several early-warning articles in 2004 about the spike in go-go mortgages. Before that, I had a hand in covering the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the Russia meltdown in 1998 and the dot-com collapse in 2000. I know a lot about the curveballs that the economy can throw at us."
Obviously not, dick. My god, YOU are the douche that reports on high level important financial matters in the country's primary, most-quoted newspaper?
Fuck.
RE: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/1…
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